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The limits of Sarbox whistleblower protection

Employees (and their lawyers) with an axe to grind--legitimately or not--at one point sensed a new field of play in Sarbanes Oxley, which as you know provides protection for those who blow the whistle on financial wrongdoing. After the law was enacted, a movement began to tests the limits of the whistleblower provision. People filed claims dealing with racial discrimination and wage payment violations under other statutes. But the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board has put an end to all that. It has recently ruled that the law does not apply to employee complaints that are tangentially related to financial concerns. The protection only applies to those who disclose matters that directly related to shareholder value.

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I read a couple of Mr. mendez's dilemma,but no one can make a comment until, due process has been processed. Secondly, soars oaxely was the new implementation to assist American top manangement be more proficient in regarding of what and how his or her company manufactures,distributes, trades, or consults. But I have only noticed American citizens changing relationships with the audited organization. For instance, the Fema CEO person after the Katrina catastrophe, he resigned from being top level management because? Previously, the government had auditted Fema and was not pleased with their trial balance. Therefore the organization was given a new set of rules I assume by AICPA.
Vis a vis, everyone blamed all lack of communication on Fema, and the CEO resigned. In addition a hip hop celebrity or pending celebrity got on national television and injustly lambasted the CEO whom allegedly worked for Fema; when the hip hop alleged celebrity grabbed the attention of all distraught America.
Unfortunately, American participants did not say, "hey, hold on mr. hip hop", are you aware, that what happened here is not about racism this is about mismanagement"!
No one intentionally forced families to live in the most unsanitary, gloomy, unlivable stadium to be hateful. This was a case of Louisana's planners of the past and present taking advantage of the modern technology and forgot to worry about the other projects; whether it was government owned like the streets and bridges, privately owned, or publically owned. This was a clear problem of mismanagement, Just like september 11, 2001.
Yet no one yelled racism, but millions were harmed or died because of mismanagement. Know this hip hop star is all over the place, and people are cheering him on, but I wonder does he ever reflect back on that eventful day, when he lit the fuse to a nonexisting problem? Mismanagement was the problem, people were hired whom had hisor her job modified so he or she could earn a wage and feed his or her family. How racist is it now?

It becomes a shame that American citizens obtain the techonology and then elevate it's worth. In the beginning we were doing things by hand, like the spinning ginnie, then locomotives was invented, automation became better for mass production. Yet, there are employees right now whom believe it is the computer whom decides the day for him or her. This is false, a person programs the computer processing unit, to goto. the human being executes the commands, sometimes the computer goes to sleep, like humans do, yet we forget about marginal error. Marginal error causes catastrophies just like a growth on the skin like a pimple it causes pain. Therefore, the problem is not whistleblowing but understanding your job description, and being able to defuse people like those whom yelled racist, prejudice and all sorts of easy slurs, instead of saying we need to further educate our selves America.
Therefore, for the hip hop celebrity, whom gave people a reason, what you did wrong was you have not learned,how to understand mismanagement and how the lack of comprehension can look like something hateful. I Barb, have told you what you did wrong, you did not investigate enough.
Ciao Bello

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